Hair brush with attached cleaning feature

Abstract

A hair brush having a cleaning feature which can be releasably attached to the brush comprising a base section having a multiplicity of parallel bristles extending from a bristle-holding surface thereof, a cleaning plate disposed on the bristle-holding surface and having holes through which the parallel bristles extend, the cleaning plate containing a hand-operated mechanism for releasably engaging the cleaning plate from the hair brush to remove the cleaning plate for cleaning purposes.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A hair brush having a cleaning feature which can be releasably attached to the brush comprising a base section having a multiplicity of parallel bristles extending from a bristle-holding surface thereof, a cleaning plate with two sides one side disposed on said bristle-holding surface and one side facing said bristles when in a first position and having holes through which the parallel bristles extend, said cleaning plate containing a hand-operated means for releasably engaging said cleaning plate from said base section for cleaning purposes, wherein the hand-operated means for releasably engaging said cleaning plate from said base section comprises a four-edge cleaning plate containing a top and bottom edge, the bottom edge configured to be disposed adjacent an end of said base section when the cleaning plate is in the first position and two side edges, including a protrusion on said bottom edge of said cleaning plate characterized in that the protrusion provides a raised edge on the cleaning plate when said cleaning plate is disposed on the base section of the bristles of the brush, and a means for engaging said cleaning plate to said brush base on the two side edges of the plate. 
     
     
       2. The hair brush of claim 1 wherein the means for engaging said cleaning plate to said base section comprises a substantially circumferentially rounded edge at each of the two sides edges of the plate that releasably engages the base section of the hair brush, opposite to the bristle holding surface. 
     
     
       3. The hair brush of claim 2, wherein the base section of the hair brush contains a ridge for releasably engaging the cleaning plate. 
     
     
       4. The hair brush of claim 1 wherein the holes of the cleaning plate are larger on that side of the cleaning plate disposed on the bristle holding surface, than on that side of the cleaning plate that face the bristles.